Category to Tag Converter
Since launching tags the other week we’ve had a fair number of people who wanted to redo their categories as tags, probably because you have a bunch of categories you’ve only used once or twice.
Now under Manage > Import there’s a Category to Tag converter, which shows you how many times you’ve used each category and allows you to convert it to a tag so it no longer shows up as a category checkbox on your write page.
Enjoy!
Oct 8th at 7:08 pm
This is something I definitely need
My categories list beyond the posts on my page!! Thank you.
Oct 8th at 7:29 pm
Works perfectly with the categories I tried… thanks!
Oct 8th at 7:43 pm
Hey Thats Cool Thanks!
Oct 8th at 7:43 pm
great feature. Saved a lot of labor.
Oct 8th at 8:03 pm
Sweetness! I’ve been fooling around with Categories and Tags all weekend, and this is just the thing I need. Thanks lots!
Oct 8th at 8:35 pm
At last! Thank you, Matt!
Oct 8th at 8:39 pm
Wow! Great idea!
Oct 8th at 8:57 pm
Brilliant, thanks! Now I can get my stuff sorted the way I like it.
Oct 8th at 9:11 pm
OMG, you’ve just save me about 6 hours of manual work! Thank you SO much!!!!
Oct 8th at 9:17 pm
Shoot, can we convert them back? I just changed them all to tags but now I’d prefer to have left them alone:(
Oct 8th at 9:26 pm
It’s a good thing you did that – it’s a bad thing that I did the work manually some days ago…
Oct 8th at 9:55 pm
Thanks Matt!
I’ve been waiting for this.
Keep up the good work!
Oct 8th at 10:03 pm
Guys, you’ve outdone yourself! Even with a modest number of posts, it can still be a hassle manually updating each post, which is why I never bothered…until now. I was hoping you guys would do something like this, cheers!
Oct 8th at 10:08 pm
Good thing! Ahorra muchísimo tiempo!
Oct 8th at 10:13 pm
This is great, thanks!
Oct 8th at 10:22 pm
Well thought! This will be *very* helpful
Thank you!
Oct 8th at 11:53 pm
Thanks Matt for the information! hopingly it will be a precious thing for me, and good luck always for you and all!
Oct 9th at 1:02 am
This is an excellent tool. Thank you for adding tags and now for making it easier to move to them.
Oct 9th at 1:15 am
yeah…that’ll make things really convenient, thank you!
Oct 9th at 1:23 am
that´s was awesome…
Oct 9th at 1:36 am
finaly !!!!!! wordpress rocks!!!!!!!!!
Oct 9th at 1:44 am
Wow,
That was amazing.
Over 400 categories converted to tags in less than a minute.
The “Write” page is so much cleaner and easyer to manage now.
Thank you,
Oct 9th at 2:16 am
awesome!
Oct 9th at 2:38 am
That’s awesome! I wish I hadn’t done them all by hand already.
Fortunately, I am a fairly new blogger, so it wasn’t too bad.
Oct 9th at 2:53 am
mucho gracias…but I already spent lots of time converting
No worries though….I’m loving the separation of tags and categories so much I won’t whine
Oct 9th at 2:55 am
thank u matt……….a thousand times !!!
Oct 9th at 3:20 am
I could really cut down on some of the lesser ones like [geist]. Thanks,
Oct 9th at 3:52 am
thats gr8 !!
Oct 9th at 3:57 am
thanks
Oct 9th at 5:05 am
Bloody awesome, just what I needed. Thanks mate.
Oct 9th at 5:21 am
Great, something I want was answered. Thanks Matt
Oct 9th at 5:25 am
this is good
Oct 9th at 6:05 am
I have been postponing this job of changing categories into tags and now that its easier should get down to it right away!
Oct 9th at 6:52 am
Any news on mass editing/changing/adding categories? I’m really waiting for that one…
Oct 9th at 7:07 am
Thank you. My few (but very pertinent!) categories didn’t want to share
Oct 9th at 7:15 am
Just after I’ve been adding tags to all my posts….
Oct 9th at 7:16 am
Thanks for listening to our request. I’m going to try this out.
Oct 9th at 8:00 am
*stops doing the jungle dance*
Thats precisely what I wanted….thanx a ton!
Oct 9th at 11:33 am
Many Thanks
Oct 9th at 11:52 am
Very nice feature. Thank you.
Oct 9th at 1:10 pm
Cool, ty¡
Oct 9th at 2:54 pm
So good!
Thanks, Matt!
Christian
Oct 9th at 4:11 pm
yes! i’m glad i was too lazy to reorganize before now =) thank you, it will be much easier now, once i get around to it…
Oct 9th at 4:19 pm
Ah, control.
Oct 9th at 5:39 pm
wow. You guys are the best
.
thanks
Oct 9th at 5:52 pm
You guys just rock.
Oct 9th at 6:22 pm
Fantastic, I have just migrated most of my categories to tags.
Categories are now readable again, and make much more sense.
Oct 9th at 6:42 pm
It’s a good thing you did that – it’s a bad thing that I did the work manually some days ago… [3]
Oct 9th at 6:45 pm
I just love converting tag. I could do it all day long.
Oct 9th at 9:32 pm
Cool. It’s interesting to see what categories I use most.
Oct 9th at 9:54 pm
Neat-o.
Still not sure how I am going to deal with this Category-Tags thing ….
Oct 9th at 10:02 pm
top stuff, dude.
Ta
Oct 9th at 10:56 pm
Oct 9th at 11:12 pm
excellent – thank you.
Oct 10th at 12:43 am
Most excellent! It literally took me five minutes to clean up my categories list. You guys rock!
Oct 10th at 1:04 am
That’s what I was waiting for… You guys do a good job!
Oct 10th at 4:58 am
that’s a great features
Oct 10th at 5:15 am
good
Oct 10th at 5:18 am
thats good
Oct 10th at 9:56 am
so obvious, so unlikely, so thoughtful. muy bueno Matt. WP i.t. iz teh biznizez.
Oct 10th at 11:28 am
Hey!
Wicked! Thanks wordpress, you rule!
-Graser 10
Oct 10th at 11:34 am
This is great!
Oct 10th at 12:45 pm
Wow!thanks a lot!
Oct 10th at 1:21 pm
thanks for informations! we need more please!
Oct 10th at 1:21 pm
like wow, i never would have thought of that, but it makes perfect sense, thanks!
Oct 10th at 3:15 pm
This is insanely great! Thank you WP for always thinking about the community!
Oct 10th at 8:23 pm
Thanks!!!
Oct 11th at 7:36 pm
WordPress ***always*** rocks!
So… is there a way we can convert them back if we want? … or even have both? ,,, just a thought.
Anyway, big chunky “Thanks”
Oct 11th at 7:44 pm
Fantastic. I asked about this when you announced tags, went away for a while and like magic you’ve made the tool. Great work guys.
Oct 11th at 11:35 pm
not sure if i will use this right away, but it is definitely a great step towards increasing the intuitive nature of wordpress. great job.
Oct 14th at 1:42 pm
Thanks Baby
Oct 14th at 3:19 pm
I love both categories and tags. Thanks guys! WordPress is the best!!
Oct 15th at 7:26 am
Yes, it’s progress but I don’t think it’s complete yet. WordPress have a cardinality problem but haven’t nailed it yet:
Suggestion!
Oct 15th at 6:52 pm
Damn it…I should have read this post first, before all the manual labour…lol, oh well, now I know.
Oct 15th at 8:39 pm
my tag / categories revamp took 96.2342% less time than i had planned
time for wine
Oct 16th at 12:36 am
Thanks for the info!
Oct 16th at 7:19 am
Nicer!
As rightly identified, I’ve some categories which have been very less used. Hence, it would be better converting them into tags of course. And with the toiling made easy, it catches my attention for doing so.
Thanks!
Oct 16th at 1:39 pm
You guys are just too good…!!!
Oct 22nd at 12:54 pm
Cool!
I owe you a lot!
Thanks all admin team!!!